Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 08:39 AM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 09:38 AM EDT |
Hmmm....when I first started using email, I received them in my mail file, they
appeared automagically - to me that is how email "just" works.
So what exactly is "push" email - what does the "push" bit
add to the email experience I had back in the mid 1980s?
What is the "push" novel invention that email I understood didn't
have?
Is it just a term to confuse people - like why do people call answerphones
"voice-mail"? Does voice-mail have the facility that ordinary
mail/email have - CC, REPLY, BCC, etc?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jesse on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 09:40 AM EDT |
The message to the phone is notification of new mail, not the mail itself.
It is then the users responsibility to retrieve the mail.
Unlike most prior art (such as the "biff" application), this is not
polling.
Normal notification of mail is done by an application running on the client that
makes periodic checks on the server and notifies the user when the mail is
updated.
The push for a phone is more like an automated call to the phone to contact an
application on the phone (acting as a server) to interpret the message as a
notification, and the application then generates the notification.
More efficient, and doesn't require the application to make outgoing calls
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Authored by: julian on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 09:42 AM EDT |
Your analogy doesn't quite fit. It would be closer to using P.O. boxes by the
local post office. You need to go to the post office to retrieve your mail just
like your mail daemon needs to go to the server to see if it has email for you.
Now if the post office had a way to let you know if mail was waiting for you,
you would only go there when there was mail and you could go immediately if
there was.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, April 15 2012 @ 03:52 PM EDT |
Sendmail pushes e-mail to the recipient. Done so since the invention of e-mail.
What's so different here?[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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